The one thing that writers and bloggers agree on is that having great ideas constantly is tough. There are days when ideas just flow freely right through your fingers but on other days putting together even the simplest article is a huge task.

The Gurus will advice you that for you to keep a regular schedule, you need to have an editorial calendar and handy list. Well that’s surely brilliant but we all know pretty well that coming up with ideas to publish is the toughest part.

Yes it’s really helpful to have a list of blog post ideas and topics on a notepad kept handy for a day that the ideas won’t flow. But the fact is that mostly ideas literally jump out of other ideas. Very little is really original so here are some handy tips to help you in coming up with your topics.

Inspiration Is Everywhere, Look Around:

While looking for inspiration to write your next article, there’s no limit as to where you can look.

Ava Jae from Writability suggests that you take a look into your old blog archives, re-read your brainstorming sessions, and getting inspiration from your day to day life. Look for something new in what surrounds you, and as well in what has been said before.

Ginny Soskey on Hubspot recommends taking a specific topic and brainstorming various ways that can change the perspective, angle, or audience.

Whichever method you may use to find inspiration for your blog, it’s always good to have a list of ready-to-publish posts, which would, entertain, inspire or educate your readers.

By keeping in mind, I have prepared a list of blog post ideas. So what are you waiting for?

47 BLOG POST IDEAS

Here are 47 of my best blog post ideas, set up into six categories. There’s certainly something for every writer in this list.

Content Related To Your Interest:

The best of web posts are lists of the best YouTube clips, websites and various kinds of web content that relate to your topic. This is a great way of demonstrating the depth of your knowledge and your line of thought on a specific topic. You don’t have to get this solely from internet you can check in various bestselling books or authors just ensure you set up a link for your readers to follow to find out more on the same then you are good to go.

This round-up post is a great educational source for your readers; it enlarges their knowledge scope and gets to know where you get your inspirations.

These are my best;1. Top writing, business, marketing tips (you can specify your area of expertise) from around the Internet.

2. The most compelling authors on current affairs.

3. My all-time favorite personalities in their area of expertise.

4. The best ‘how-to’ YouTube users to follow.

5. Best apps this as well could either be from your area of expertise or the area in which you want to help your readers to develop in.

6. The best blogs that you’ve read in the past week, month or year.

7. The best Facebook pages to follow for knowledge, ideas, or inspiration.

How-to articles basically identify a need in the knowledge of your readers, and then you get to fill it with your expertise, extra research and opinion on how to satisfy the need.

Christina Katz from Writers Digest says that how-to articles are actually a sequence of events, taking you from one end of your designated task to the other.

The key steps she identified are; selecting a topic, addressing the needs of your readers, and being specific.

Here are some examples:

8. How to write a catchy blog post.

9. How to write an awesome guest post.

10. How to attract great guest writers to your blog.

11. How to navigate the best social media platforms helpful to your readers.

12. How to write great content that is relevant to your market segment (facebook
page, blog post)

13. How to avoid writers’ block (or any other challenge that would be relevant to your niche).

14. How to your time more efficiently.

15. Best ways to attract a large audience.

The Comparative Article:

A comparative article takes into account several market leaders in your niche (be it fashion, health, marketing or whichever area you are in) and checks them alongside each other and determines the winner, or even to compare the highlights and low points of each one of them.

Your aim should be to analyze, compare and evaluate your article and ensure the final copy will inform your audience and hopefully even surprise them with your expertise.

16. Pintrest or Facebook? Which works better for online content marketing?

17. Get married or stay single? The money or the passion, write the most relevant
and interesting topic for your audience)

18. Documenting on the go: the pros and cons of Google vs. Yahoo for … (write your market’s interest; hopefully this would end up with ‘note-taking readers’).

19. What helps you regain your focus – relaxation or exercise?

20. Facebook VS. Twitter: the social media wars.

21. Editing software debate: Premier Pro. Vs. iMovie.

22. Pen and Paper or Keyboard and Screen? Which is most effective while conveying a message?

23. Hitting the share or not: how sharing other peoples work can turn for or against you.

24. Top 10 (….) software in 2016.

25. 3 things you should do before you start on your writing career.

Handy Lists:

Lists are a great way to hype creativity with blog posts, and get the interest of a huge audience. List your top 20 favorites, 10 most helpful, 5 ways to get more… and with this you surely got yourself great, catchy content.

People generally love lists; they’re immensely shareable and easily click-able. You just need to change the ‘for writers’ part to what fits your market niche best.

Simply start with a stance, and defend it — or take dissolve it and provide an alternative perspective.

41. Why do writers make such awesome listeners?

42. Why sitting for long hours would be killing you slowly.

43. Why creativity can’t be learnt in schools.

44. Why you should always defend your passion.

45. Why having a blog is very important to your success / doesn’t matter at all in
regard to your success.

46. Why writers should as well be marketers.

47. Why writers should always keep reading.

Some of these blog ideas are quite specific, while others are more employable and can be more easily applied, but whatever blog post ideas you prefer to use, you can always twist them a bit to fit into your audience’s needs.

Most importantly keep in mind that blog posts should always be informative, entertaining, and relevant to your market niche – content surely is king, but audience is always the queen.

Maintaining a blog can become a time consuming task. Writing post, SEO, Marketing, Ad Networks, Social Networking, ext takes up a lot of time. Depending on how you look at it if you are a full time blogger you should look at it as if you are working full time at a regular job or the same goes for a part time blogger.

How much time you should spend working on your blog and marketing?

No mater which you should have goals and consider working on a long term plan for your blog. Setting up your milestones, time keeping, tracking your stats and other aspects can become an important rule when creating a successful blog. Only working post and less on other parts of your blog like marketing, networking, advertising is not that effective if no one is reading your blog. You may find that setting a few goals and having a good plan for your blog will give you a chance to manage your time. Even with a good long term plan a successful blog will never happen overnight or over a few weeks.

Building up your blogs success and profit will take time. Staying committed with your blog though the rough period of starting up and staying motivated with your goals will help you maintain a morenoticeable blog for your readers. So the next thing to figure out is what parts of your blog you need to work on and how to manage your time and what milestones you need to set to archive these goals.

If you decide you are going to be a full time blogger, try to spend at-least 4-8 hour a day or more on your blog as you would if you are working for a regular job. Set you how much time you are going to spend doing certain jobs around your blogging like time you will spend posting, research, networking, marketing, reading other blogs, etc..

These are a good starting point for your daily goals. Going in to short term and long term goals for your blog you may want to set a few milestones to archive these desired goals. These goals can be anything you would like to archive from redesigning your blog, testing a new ad network or affiliate program, trying out a new marketing strategy, see how many readers you can achieve in a months time, set up a advertising campaign, and so on.

As I did a little research myself I was looking for a tool to help out with managing my time online and how much time I spend doing certain things on a daily basis and other tools to help with achieving goals and found some great tools to help.

Tools to Track your Blog Progress:

Here are some sites and tools you can check out to help you achieve your short term and long term goals while blogging or anything else in your life.

SlimTimer was the software I found to help me keep track of my time online and how long I spend doing things. It’s simple to use and is easy to set up.

All you do is set up your activities and when you are doing one you select it and it will keep your time spent on that project. It also keeps a nice report of all your activities in a report so you can view the time you have spent on each activity though out the day, week, month, per task, etc.

The most important but good part of this software is its free of cost with no charges.

This is an addon that you can use to keep track of your time browsing. You can track your browsing across a time session, pause it, reset the timer, etc. It really doesn’t keep track of anything but your browsing time but this could be good to see how much time you spend reading blogs or doing research.

Toggl is a time tracking service that has a nice free service along with a paid service. The free service offers a lot of great options and the service also has a desktop application that you can install to connect to the server.Time-trackerA simple tracker to keep track on the time you spend on task.

MyProgress is a personal progress manager with a lot of great management tools that help you track and analyze your productivity, success, wealth progress, skills, knowledge, health and more.

With MyProgress you can watch your progress and discover your productivity at any period, any time, any place.

Paid Task and Project Management Servies

There are a few services out there that allow you to keep track of your projects, task and milestones.

They can be used for individual goal setting and keeping track of everything. Most have a price but offer a free account with limited usage. You can check in to a few if you are interested. Few of them are as follows.

BaseCamp

ActiveCollab

GetHarvest

There are lots of applications and services that are out there to help you with your time management, achieve and setting goals. All this is great to help you get motivated, but the only person that can achieve your goals is YOU.

You really do not need fancy softwares neither they can assure you the way to success. They only can help, but the old fashion way with a pen, paper, calendar and some sticky notes on the fridge might work just as well.

Do try these amazing Softwares, Applications and Addons and see what works for you. Though traditional methods like pen and paper do a fairly reasonable job too but in this revolutionized era, you may keep yourself ‘Digitalized‘ by using these great applications.

This blog doesn’t get a great deal of traffic at this time and giving away the exact numbers will cause me a great deal of embarrassment.

But if I spent more time blogging rather than tinkering with the design, looking for appropriate affiliate ads and experimenting with WordPress plugins, the visitor numbers could actually increase to something worth writing about.Getting a small number of visitors does have one plus point – I don’t get many comments to deal with.

I read a blog post a few days ago that talked about hiring someone just to handle comment spam. O really ..! Most
of the comments made here end up in the spam folder and rightly so.

They are just that; spam. It is not the Akismet plugin getting it wrong, it is the Akismet plugin getting it bang on. Most of the comments are along the lines of “great post, I have added your feed to my reader” and come from an email address which ends ‘dot ru‘. A sure sign that the comment has been automated and the commentator has not really read my post and hasn’t added my feed to their reader. Perhaps these people are using Blog Comment Demon.

There are currently 18 spam comments waiting to be deleted, but before I do that I thought I would share some of them with you. If I were having to deal with hundreds of these every day I would not be a happy bunny.

I added your blog to bookmarks. And i’ll read your articles more often!Good article, lots of interesting things to digest.

Very informative. Please provide detail of funding by program.

Really nice posts.I will be checking back here regularly.

What’s another word for “thesaurus”?

Thank you for another great post.I look forward to many more entries with high quality info.

Why is it that people say they “slept like a baby” when babies wake up 10 times every hour?

Very nice site!Read with great interest, very interesting story.

Begin to remember, I still started.Hello, nice post. I just found your blog and I’m already a fan. 😛

A couple of the commentators clearly have a sense of humor, but I am afraid their comments have not made it past the gatekeeper.

Apart from these hilarious activities, there can be certain tactics to be used to generate quality traffic and I have listed them as follows.

Be honest to yourself and ask these questions to yourself why would you visit someone’s blog? Just put your hand to your heart and close your eyes. No No there is no romance at all, just pure Blogging thoughts :P.

7 Things your Readers want from you:

There could be three core steps every reader wants in a blog.

Value

Interest

Innovation

Consistency

Authority

Design

Connection

Value:

The first and foremost thing your readers want from you is the ‘Value’ from your content. If you are passionate about something and you are confident what you are writing is accurate by any means, your readers are going to be your loyal readers and you are the man you have been looked for.

How to inject value to your content?

Be truthful to yourself and your readers

Don’t beat about the bush about the topic you are writing

Give respect whatever your reader reaction would be

Simplicity is the best:- Write content in simple wordings with no technical jargon included

Interest:

People want interesting stuff, something interesting yet informative. People turn to loyal readers when they see your content interesting, informative, helpful and thought provoking. One of the core factor in driving traffic is ‘Interest’. Engage your audience with thrilling stuff, put some humor if you like.

Innovation:

Everything seems boring if yo do it in the same routine with same pattern. Try something unique and innovative. Add flavor to your content and come up with new horizons of thinking. It may seem odd but really it works.

Consistency:

What wold happen when you see a particular blog featuring a same content for weeks? Obviously it won’t affect your health and mood but most probably you won’t like to visit that blog again.

Why?

The answer is simple as the content you have been seen is no way different from weeks. Would that blog have a large number of audience? Never unless the blog belongs to Official Google News or Matt Cuts tweets.

Being consistent is the key to maintain your audience cum loyal readers. Hence ‘Consistence’ has different meanings for different niches. Different blogs find different results based on their niches and area of interests. Although there is no rule as how and when to produce content either within a week or after weeks. You may try your own and decide which approach works for you.

Authority:

When it comes to the term ‘Authority’, mostly an image appears in mind with whole new level about something that can’t be wrong. Unlike the proverb ‘Majority is Authority’, I would turn it as ‘An Authority was once a Minority’ especially in blogsphere.

You don’t need to have a philosopher when it comes to blogging. A famous saying ‘Fake it until you make it’ sets properly in blogging field. Of course initially you won’t have a great knowledge and your piece of writing would have low and scattered thoughts with weak points but with the passage of time, it will be okay as practice makes the man perfect.

I have been in IM (internet marketing) for years (2007) when I first started my sites. With the passage of time, I have got enough knowledge as how blogging, SEO, SEM and other internet marketing stuff works.

It takes time to be an expert in a particular topic and that’s perfectly fine. It may take weeks, months or even years to build a better presence about your topic but once you will be able to establish yourself as an authority, people would love write nice things about you.

Design:

UI/UX (User Experience) has a great role in your blog success. Believe if you have a nice looking, eye catching and professional looking blog, half of your job has already done. Apart from the design perspective, you need to consider few other factors in mind that have great impact in blogging.

Font Size

Font Selection

Advertisement

Links

User Friendliness

Connection:

[Re-enactment] John writes content on troubleshooting on iPad, iPhones and other Apple products but fails to answers queries which his receives through blog comments. What happens next? His blog has less interaction level with audience. Is john doing right?

How much time does it take to respond to relevant comments (Not the Spam ones)? one minute or 5 minute? But the impact has a high ratio in terms of connection normally known as interaction.

You need to think about those people reaching out to your blog. They have busy routines and they may have chosen your blog among dozens of blogs.

They are valuing your blog, your content and your time too. It’s really good gesture and you must encourage them by responding to their queries even if it’s ONE word only.

Be nicer to them and take some time to respond. It’s a great sign of healthy discussion even if it takes your few minutes, try to respond your each and every comment (of course not the ones I talked earlier in this post =P).

In the end, your ultimately goal is to evolve your conversation in to loyal relationship.

Just drop your precious words in the comments section below if you want to raise any point. You are more than welcomed.

We all know the benefits of Guest Posting, don’t we?But, for the newbies who have no idea about it, What is Guest Blogging?

In simple language, writing for other blogs is guest blogging.Even if you’re blogging, you should guest blog. Why?Because you want traffic, you want more subscribers, you want more sales, you want your brand to rise, and guest blogging help us to get this…

Do you want more reasons?If yes, then here is a big list showing the benefits that you will get when you guest blog in a successful authority site.

Benefits of Guest Blogging

#1. Targeted Traffic to Your Blog.

#2. Quality Backlinks forever.

#3. Quick building of long email lists.

#4. More Search Traffic (Indirectly).

#5. More fans and followers on social media sites.

#6. More Readers & Commentators.

#7. Higher Page Rank & Domain Authority.

#8. More amount of post shares.

#9. More Income from Ads & Affiliates.

#10. Indirect Search Engine Optimization.

So now you’ve got the idea that a guest post helps in driving traffic to our blogs, in increasing our blog’s ranking in search results and in many other ways. Again, it is also one of the best ways to get exposure and increase the PR (Page Rank) of a blog.

By seeing the benefits every other blogger searches for a guest blog in their niche and submits their guest post. And this helps them to a much extent. But many guest blogs publish a number of posts in the same day and so chances are there that your guest post may just go unnoticed. Readers too don’t possess much time to read each and every post published and they just pick up the interesting one. So it’s our duty to make them read our post.

What if you’ve written with a lot of effort and only few have read it? So, we have to take certain steps to make our guest post stand out in the crowd.So, here are some ways to make your guest post stand out, so that it drives more and more readers:Do you write awesome content? It’s good. But readers out there always like controversial posts and debating articles like- Blogger or WordPress? Again they also like posts that have call to action. So in order to make more visits to our guest post we should always try to write such type of posts that interests the readers. Otherwise they will just make a way to the post lying beside yours.

When we share our posts in Social Networking Sites then the headline plays an important role in attracting the users. So how much we can, we must try to put an interesting headline to our guest posts. These helps in attracting a lot of users from sites like Facebook & Twitter.

When a user sees our post in Search Results page, the meta-tag helps him to make a decision- whether he should click the link or not. So a relevant Meta-tag does a lot good in this case. A relevant meta-tag gives the user a reason to click on your link.This point always helps in making our posts stand out. Most of the blog readers check the popularity of a post by seeing the no. of likes or the no. of tweets it has got. So a post with more no. of shares automatically attracts a lot of people. Again, sharing of the post also helps in driving a lot of users from the social sites. So sharing helps all in all. Along with a headline an Image too appears in the social sites when we share our posts. Again, even in the homepage your post will appear along with an image. So an attractive and unique image always helps in driving traffic.I know that after submitting your guest post the Editor will check it and will optimize it for search engines. But you can’t just leave everything for him. If you have time then you should spent a little more by optimizing the post. This is only going to help you and your blog. So a little optimization is worth it.

In order to gain some recommendations from Google you have to provide some well understandable stuff to the readers out there. You need to recheck your content after completing it. You should always try to proofread your blog posts before publishing it because readers don’t like to read something which is full of grammatical mistakes and wrong spellings.How do you feel when you see a post getting 100s of comments? Not only you, everyone you sees the post feels that, this post should have good content otherwise why people would have commented there. But some times even after writing good content bloggers don’t get comments.

How to gain more Comments in your post?

So in order to gain more comments you can follow these 3 tips:

#1 Tip: End your article in a way that inspires the reader. Give a short summary if you can.

#2 Tip: Ask your friends & readers to comment on your blog post.

#3 Tip: Encourage your readers to share your post in social sites.

Once you gain many comments your post will have an another reason to stand out. Visitors will simply make their way to read to your post.

These are some of the awesome points everyone must keep in mind while going for guest blogging. If you want to add more points then you can always indicate them in the comments section. Anyways I will suggest you to write something useful, informative and uncommon to get more attention in this highly competitive blogosphere.

The platform is extremely popular because of design variability and great customization options. The platform supports a wide range of plug-ins. Because the design is so flexible, a WordPress blog can be tailored to draw in as much ad revenue as possible. The indication of a blog’s level of influence is how many active readers it boasts. The best way to draw in and retain new readers to a blog is to use a host of different content promotion plug-ins, SEO, and some creative article titles.

Top Five WordPress Blog Promotion Add-ons

1.) Thank Me Later: This plug-in uses automatic emailing (with user-defined settings) to retain readers who only visit the blog once or twice. Users who haven’t been active in blog discussions or who haven’t visited the site in a long time can be sent an email with updates on the blog’s new stories. This helps remind users to make another quick visit to your blog. Top corporate blogs recommend Thank Me Later as one of the top blog implements to help boost active reader retention rates.

2.) Digg Digg: This plug-in allows blog authors to easily implement color scheme customized “like” and “share” buttons for Twitter and Facebook. The power of social networking and EWoM (Electronic Word of Mouth) should never be underestimated. Facebook and Twitter play major roles in E-marketing campaigns of businesses around the world in the current climate of the internet.

3.) Smart 404: Users sometimes come upon a new blog via a link from a fellow affiliate. When someone shares your story URL, there’s the off chance that human error will cause a mistype or two. Smart 404 searches archived and fresh posts from blogs and redirects the bad URL to a story with a similar title or subject. No more 404s!

4.) STormDrain: STormDrain is a brilliant plug-in designed for WordPress blog promotion. The plug-in scours Google and the WordPress blog directory to find websites with analogous topics. It will comment on the latest story with a user-defined message and a link to the user’s blog. This add-on is great for spreading word of new blogs, and it even finds a couple of possible blogging affiliates along the way!

5.) SEO Counter: The SEO Counter plug-in adds in an extra function when writing new posts. Authors will be able to insert target keywords, and WordPress will give an approximation of how many times the specific keywords should be used in an article. Keyword densities and target keywords can be adjusted on the fly with a slick settings manager. This is definitely an essential add-on for bloggers looking to crawl up on Google rankings.